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Thinking Spatially

Our Thinking Spatially exercises encourage you to take a closer look at your textbook's maps and find out whether you can interpret them correctly.

This activity contains 5 questions.

Question 1.
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Have a look at the map of European Imperialism in Africa (Figure 9.19). Overall, which two European colonial powers had the most extensive colonial possessions in Africa?  
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Question 2.
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Have a look at the map of Colonization in South America in Figure 9.20 on p. 411. Which of the European colonial powers controlled most of the east coast of South America?  
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Question 3.
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Have a look at the map of United Nations Member Countries (Figure 9.28). According to this map, which two states are not members of the UN? (Postscript: in 2002, one of these two states became the 190th member of the UN - do you know which one? Now there is only one sovereign state left that is not a member of the UN: the Vatican City State in Rome. It is not shown on the map because it is too small - about the size of your university campus. Read more about this unique state at Wikipedia). Moreover, there is controversy over the status of Taiwan, which lost its U.N. seat when the People's Republic of China was admitted in 1971. 
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Question 4.
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Have a look at the map of Membership in the European Union (Figure 9.30). Which EU member states border on both non-member states and applicant states at the same time?  
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Question 5.
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Have a look at the map of the Former Yugoslavia in Figure 9.33 on p. 425. In which of the successor states of Yugoslavia are there NO Serbs to be found?  
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